What an excellent audiobook! The reader really brought Mary's character to life! I started reading this as an ebook and wasn't getting much out of it, and I really happy that I picked it back up again and started over when my audiobook came in on hold.
The narrator really made you feel Mary's horror when she looked in mirrors, or the crazed thought spirals she would get stuck in, or even just the generally creepy thoughts she would have. That, together with the strange setting of a tiny desert town and some truly horrible characters, by the end of the book I was rooting for Mary!

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It also had my favorite "good for her" endings.

I appreciated the author's preface and afterwards talking about how he wrote this book and his thoughts on a white, cis male writing a horror novel about a 50 year old woman going through the horrors of menopause, a misogynistic world, and returning home to a town and family that did nothing to help or love you. I would rather take seeing dead women in bathtubs and my face rotting in a mirror than go through all that.